Twisters Filmed On-Location During Tornado Season in Oklahoma

You want twisters, you got twisters.

According to the director of Twisters , the upcoming weather disaster blockbuster was filmed on-location. That is, in rural Oklahoma during tornado season.

“It was tough,” Lee Isaac Chung tells Empire . “The unpredictability of the weather caused a lot of issues and delays. It was my choice to do this in tornado season, but honestly, I still can’t believe we actually did it.”

It sounds grossly impractical to film a complex Hollywood production in a location demanding people with any survival instinct to batten down the hatches and perhaps duck into a reinforced basement, but Chung stressed the importance of authenticity.

“This is an elemental story, so I wanted us to go as practical as possible. We really tore things up. We had jet engines blowing. We had fans so massive you’d lose your hearing without earplugs. We were pelting our cast with everything – dirt, wind, ice.”

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That cast includes Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos. Previously, Powell detailed his failed Marvel audition to play Captain America . That might have been playing on his mind when Chung told him exactly where Twisters would be shooting.

Twisters blows into cinemas 19 July, 2024.